Seinfeld Season 3 is one of the lesser known and less popular seasons of Seinfeld. But it is no less amazing, no less hysterical. Only 2 or 3 episodes into Season 3 do you feel that the spectacular cast has found it's groove, a groove that will remain for many years to come. Season 3 has many classic Seinfeld episodes and deserves the same attention that the more popular and latter seasons often conjure. The re-visited and oft mentioned history of Jerry and Elaine's relationship ends Season 3 and does not disappoint with lots of laughs.

Let me be the innocent child in "The Emperor's New Clothes," and proclaim:

Jerry Seinfeld is not funny!

Oh, I know what you're thinking: Here's a guy who thinks Seinfeld was unfunny, but his cast was hilarious.

No. At best the rest of the cast was mildly amusing (although Jason Alexander is a talented actor, he is not necessarily hilarious, hence the two stars).

Because, when it comes down to brass tacks, "Seinfeld" *was* a "show about nothing" -- in every sense of the word:

The contrived semi-plots, with choppy one-liner segments.

The cloying, annoying, ejaculatory bass riffs between shots.

Jerry Seinfeld posing as this hipster: Yeah, right, a hipster with a ridiculous bushy mullet. At best, Seinfeld was an Upper West Side Jewish version of Jeff Foxworthy. You want to know why people think Jewish men are smug, metrosexual wimpish know-it-alls? I submit Jerry Seinfeld as "Exhibit A." If a WASP played a Jew such as Seinfeld, he'd be accused of bigoted racial slurs against the Jewish people. Grating, like fingernails down a chalkboard.

Oh, and speaking of freakish hair-do's: Is there anyone alive who thinks that Michael Richards as Kramer would even inspire a single chuckle if shorn of that ridiculous Brillo-pad hair? Within three episodes, he'd have been out of the door, after having been reduced to haranguing black hecklers in the studio audience: He's a [n-word]! He's a [n-word]!

Pathetic.

And, "Elaine"?

Puleeze! She makes Gwyneth Paltrow look like Kate Winslet, she is so flat.

Yawn.

There are so many great episodes in this season. One of the best sitcoms ever! They never seem to get old and this isn't even the best season. Season three is great,all episodes uncut and interesting extras make this set a must buy!

This is a great Sienfeld season, a lot of classic episodes an for sure you'll want to watch this repeatedly. Great purchase. A must have.

The DVDs are great, they have lots of extra features and commentary. You probably know whether or not youre going to buy them, but you should shop around! Target sells the first 5 seasnons for $20!

When nothing is on the tube, or you need a good laugh, this is the one for me. Quick, 30-minute show that always makes you laugh.

If you have seen it you know, if you have not, you should.

After two somewhat experimental seasons, Seinfeld really began hitting its stride in this third season. It's really a tribute to the talent that was in front of and behind the cameras on this show that they tweaked the formula for two seasons until near perfect comedy and chemistry was achieved.

In "The Library" we see how the writers make everything come full circle in this show. One of the best one-episode characters in Seinfeld's history, the Library Detective is an hilariously stubborn old fashioned man who confronts Jerry about a missing book from 1971 that was never returned. Jerry goes to see his girlfriend at the time to see if he returned the book, only to find that he had not. Meanwhile, Kramer meets a pretty librarian and George sees his brown toothed underwear pulling gym teacher, who now is a bum living under the steps of the NYC Public Library. The old man hasn't changed much, and he gives George yet another wedgie. Also, the library book turned out not to be just a red herring, as it turns out the homeless gym teacher has hung onto it all these years.

"The Red Dot" is a hilarious example of how George cannot just leave well enough alone - he always has to push everything to its limits. Elaine gets the long out-of-work George a job at the publishing company for which she works. Everything would be back on track for George, but he just can't resist having sex in the office with the cleaning lady. The cleaning lady takes the encounter more seriously than George does, and George is afraid she'll tell his boss of the encounter and get him fired. He decides to give her a gift, a cashmere sweater that has been deeply discounted because of a tiny red dot on it that is supposedly too small to see yet each of its recipients spot it almost immediately, including the cleaning lady. She informs on George, and he is out of work once again.

The season finale, "The Keys", sets up the Emmy winning fourth season. Kramer has been abusing his house priveleges in Jerry's apartment too much, so Jerry revokes his spare key privileges. Realizing that he has broken the "covenant of the keys" gives Kramer the realization he is now free to break out of his routine. Kramer takes off for California to follow his dream of becoming an actor. Jerry gave his spare keys to Elaine, then when he needs them, he goes with George to Elaine's to search for his spare set, since George has Elaine's spare keys. What they find is Elaine's show-biz project, an episode of Murphy Brown that she has written. Elaine finds the two going through her stuff and in turn revokes George's spare key priveleges. Kramer finds adventure as he journeys across the country to LA where he gets a bit part on Murphy Brown playing her secretary. The next season picks up on the gang trying to locate Kramer in California.

I highly recommend this season as the first season of Seinfeld where everything seems to be clicking both storywise and character-wise. It's not a show where you need any background from previous seasons, since, after all, it is "a show about nothing". However, I found it helpful to view the first two seasons first to see how everything came together.

A third season for a sitcom makes it still a young show. However, by Season 3, Seinfeld and his friends are delivering one-liners and dealing with normally dull situations that will leave you with tears in your eyes and tummy-ache from laughing so hard. Who else but Seinfeld can make a joke out losing your car in a parking garage, being arrested for urinating in public, and a dying goldfish?!

Riding on the momentum of the last few episodes of the previous season, Seinfeld - Season 3 would be the first of several seasons where nearly every episode was top notch, many of which would become classics. The writing, much of which was based on things that really happened to the writers, improved tremendously as did the rapport among the cast. This led to a small but dedicated cult following which would increase during the season. Momentum had built as such that two of Season 4's episodes would debut the following summer rather than in the traditional fall season.

Disc 1 is very strong as both "The Library" and "The Pen" would become early classics while "The Note" and "The Truth" were also very good. Every episode of Disc 2 is top notch with the episodes "The Parking Garage", "The Café", "The Tape", and "The Alternate Side" reaching classic status with the last debuting one of the show's many catchphrases, in this case "These pretzels are making me thirsty!" Disc 3 is just as great with the best episodes being "The Red Dot", "The Pez Dispenser", and "The Boyfriend", the series' first two-part episode, which features former baseball great Keith Hernandez as well as a hilarious segment involving a spitting incident between Hernandez, Kramer, and Newman in the guise of the movie, JFK. Disc 4 is awesome as well with the best episodes being "The Fix Up", "The Limo", and "The Parking Space." Even lesser known episodes during the season such as "The Dog", "The Nose Job", and "The Subway" are very funny. As with all of the DVD's released in the Seinfeld series, the coup de grace are the special features which feature bloopers, deleted scenes, inside looks, and exclusive stand-up material. Also included is a must see 22-minute documentary on the Kramer character and the highly recommended Notes About Nothing which are chock full of information. Also worth noting is there's less emphasis on Jerry's stand-up routine as the writing team was running on all cylinders. Despite the struggling ratings when these shows originally aired, Season 3 would be the season where Seinfeld came of age and would lead to its phenomenon status. Highly recommended.

ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS! This is where the magic started. The Subway episode is great, gotta love those Al Roker cameos; and the Costanza, so funny, so over the top! There are many, many other funny episodes. But the master of the season, and perhaps the series, The Librarian! Mr. Bookman was an instant classic character. "I know punks like you, flashy, making the scene ... etc." Just brilliant!

If you're a T.V. Seinfeld fan you will absolutely love the DVD's. The scenes that are cut to insert commercials by syndicators are restored on the high quality DVD versions. I grew up in the United States and had always liked the series from television. I was married while living/working/studying in China in 2002 and bought the DVD's for my wife on our coming to the United States in 2005. She had never seen Seinfeld before and had never been exposed to this style of humor or the slice of American life that the series presents. We have watched the DVD's over and over again and they never fail to make us laugh and lift our spirits when we've had a bad day. We utilize the closed captioning option and it has been a great help for my wife in acquiring an understanding of casual English usage including slang, and idiom. On a more serious note, owning so many seasons and watching the episodes regularly makes you realize the sad truth that much of American life really is focused on the themes of myopic self-interest presented and ridiculed in this series. I sometimes worry that individuals may actually see the series as a validation of their lack of ethics, morals, and connection with the Creator instead of as a revelation and jabbing at today's inappropriate social dynamics; just as the Archie Bunker/All In the Family series did in the 1970's.
The DVD sets include great special features from "How It Began" to "Making a Seinfeld Episode", deleted scenes, behind the scenes commentary from cast and creators, never-before-seen standup footage of Jerry, original NBC promotional ads and trailers, outtakes and bloopers, and much, much more. It's obvious that a lot of thought and work went into producing the DVD sets and I can't wait until the remaining seasons come out for sale at Amazon. After all; "Who wouldn't love Jerry?"
Episodes included in this set are:
Season 3 - The Note, The Truth, The Dog, The Library, The Pen, The Parking Garage, The Café, The Tape, The Nose Job, The Alternate Side, The Red Dot, The Suicide, The Subway, The Pez Dispenser, The Boyfriend, The Fix-up, The Limo, The Good Samaritan, The Letter, The Parking Space, The Keys.

Whilst we had to wait until the next season (4) for Seinfeld to win an Emmy Season three gave us some classic episodes which should have been at least nominated, such as The Parking Garage, The Limo, The Subway and The Parking Space to name but four. And who can forget everywhere, people at work and wherever else you went the next day reciting "These Pretzels are Making Me Thirsty" from the Alternate Side episode when it first aired.

This DVD set contains all 22 episodes of season 3 as well as the standard features which are on all other season sets, ie Yada, Yada, Yada Comentaries, In the Vault Deleted Scenes, Notes About Nothing and Inside Looks Brief Interviews. Again we the viewers learn interesting stuff from these features such as Jason Alexander explaining during Inside Look of The Pen how he threatened to quit after George being left out of the episode. Whilst there was a lot of great information I was a bit disappointed with the commentary on The Parking Garage as it was just a couple of directors on an ego trip telling us what a great job they did, how the garage looks real and stuff like this. Surely Jerry or someone could have joined them to make it more entertaining. Also included on Season 3 is Kramer vs Kramer where we meet Larry David's inspiration for Kramer his old neighbour Kenny Kramer.

Like all the Seinfeld seasons this is a must own for any fan of comedy. Seinfeld is one of those shows you just watch over and over again eagerly awaiting the lines you know are coming.

I bought the first 3 seasons for my boyfriend's birthday, and he loved it. They were delivered in a timely manner and in great condition. I will definitely order again in the future!

I have to confess that I am not a Seinfeld fanatic but I really like the shows. I own Season 1, 2 & 3 and I think that Seanson 3 is the best of them.
Pros:
+ Funny Episodes
+ Spanish Subtitles ;)
+ A lot of extras
Cons:
- No so cheap DVD box

The eisodes of season 3 are:

1.The Note
George thinks a man turns him on.

2.The Truth
George breaks up with his crazy girlfriend.

3.The Dog
Jerry watches a mean dog for a week, and Elaine and George find out that they have nothing in common.

4.The Library
Jerry has an overdue book from 1971.

5.The Pen
Elaine takes a pain reliving pill, and goes phyco at Jerry's meeting, and yells Stella.

6.The Parking Garage
Kramer looses his car in a parking garage.

7.The Cafe
Jerry Visits a restaraunt without any business.

8.The Tape

9.The Nose Job

10.The Alternate Side

11.The Red Dot

12.The Suicide

13.The Subway

14.The Pez Dispenser

15.The Boyfriend (1)

16.The Boyfriend (2)

17.The Fix-Up

18.The Limo

19.The Good Samaritan

20.The Letter

21.The Parking Space

22.The Keys

Did you know Seinfeld is not really counted as a sitcom?

Yes, Seinfeld is always funny. Here's what he said about his comedic inspiration: "[Lois Nettleton] was married to Jean Shepherd. He's the guy who invented talk radio and really formed my entire comedic sensibility. Yes. I learned how to do comedy from Jean Shepherd." He said this in his commentary for "The Gymnast" episode on the sitcom's DVD set, sixth season. Who is Jean Shepherd? See the book EXCELSIOR, YOU FATHEAD! THE ART AND ENIGMA OF JEAN SHEPHERD.

how great it is to watch shows on dvd.you get to watch uninterrupted without the usual 5 minute breaks for commercials.and what better way to watch a show than to watch one of the best shows of all-time,seinfeld.this the 3rd season is one of the best seasons of the show.it includes one of my favorite episodes,"the parking garage." michael richards really nails his character kramer this season.this season also shows seinfelds stand-up,edited out later in the shows seasons.the cast is always great and every episode has at least one laugh-out-loud.definitely recommended for those who love the show and for those who love real laughs.

Seinfeld was the funniest show I have seen. Season 3 the show deffinately hit it's stride after 2 off an on seasons.


One note to Shai Biderman, the reason the Stranded is not included on this set is because it's on Volume1. The dvd's are in production order rather than airdate order and even though the Stranded was aired during season3 it was made during season2(hence why George has a job in the Stranded)

Finally the best show on tv becomes the best show on tv with season 3. Season 3 started to have classic episdoes and started to get a fan following. In season 3 theres such classic episdoes as The Boyfriend with Keith Hernandez and the J.F.K. parody, "The Library","The Pez Dispenser," and "The Keys," with an L.A.-bound Kramer winding up on Murphy Brown. Michael Richards, especially, comes into his own this season as Kramer. The first two seasons built up the mystique of this "man-child"/"parasite." So while he was absent in season 2's "The Chinese Restaurant is also a halarious episodes. Wtach all the classic episodes and see why this is the best show ever.

If you like great comedy, this is the DVD for you! The quality of the DVD is excellent. I highly recommend all of the Seinfeld season DVDs.

I find that season 3(vol. 2) is similar to season 1 & 2(vol. 1) as it's still more subtle and the characters are less developed but still funny, no doubt about that. It seems to be that most people have the opinion of season 4 being the break through season but that's for another review. So, I say these are worth the money because they're funny and they have the best special features! Personally I am a big fan of Jerry's stand up so I love being able to watch EXTRA stand up and of course you get the commentary which is great because you get to hear what some of the gang thought about each episode but the best feature on this episode in my opinion is Kramer vs. Kramer: From Kenny to Cosmo which is about Kenny Kramer, the Kramer that Cosmo is based on and it's interesting and great yada, yada, yada.

This is great! the library watchdog cop who speaks exactlly like a man from the old dragnet series and calls Jerry a joyboy is amazing! The limo is good to, with Jerry and George mistankingly taking on the identities of neo nazis. Kramer then thinks that Jerry must be a nazi because he is always so neat.Good extra material as well, with hilarious stand up by Seinfeld and lots of good directors comments.What an amazing show.

Addictive, watched it all in one go. Sooooo funny... buy it now!

A man in boiled mint sauce from Britain is writing in the kids reviews as he is a notorious hand wringer. He loves Seinfeld annd refers to himself in the third person. He can't believe you haven't seen the Brass Eye paedophile special, but Seinfeld is a good comedy and he likes George and The Suicide.

The title says it all.

In the third season you really see the characters start to develop into what they would become in season 4 and beyond.

Great stuff here. I miss the show.

This set does depict the Seinfeld series as it ultimately remained.

The concept of "the Seinfeld Chronicles" pilot was to feature a New York standup comic and how his standup material interacted with his real life.

Major themes involving his three friends and then other recurring characters (making this into more a "sitcom" than originally intended) happened later.

The humor was supposed to be comparing his routines to his life.

But instead, viewers became fascinated by his character and his friends. "The Seinfeld gang" is, to me, one of the quirkiest phrases imaginable. Is the Seinfeld gang like the crips or the bloods? Well, no. In fact, the most enduring trait and root of great comedy comes from their relentless self-absorption and lack of empathy.

Larry David lends himself to the show in incredible ways.

Oddly enough, I stopped watching Seinfeld after the original "chronicles" morphed into the much more familiar sitcom rhythm. I felt cheated. It was almost as though the integrity of the first creative concept had been sacrificed to commercialism.

Five years later, when the only thing people around the water cooler could talk about was last night's Seinfeld, I realized that I was right: it had "gone commercial" but, in the process, become a part of our culture and had brought pleasure to many, many people. Art is lost for money...

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

if you ever seen the show you will love the dvd. up close and personal with extras. enjoy the show!

I really, really enjoyed the first two seasons of the show, and volume one on DVD was superbly done. This set was released the same day, and it is even better.

Everyone at 'Seinfeld' was shocked when the show was renewed for a third season. This would be the first full season. The first season had four episodes (unless you include the pilot), while the second had only thirteen. This season has twenty-two, and they're all gems. A lot of people say the show didn't get good until season four, when the ratings really got huge, but I completely disagree. Even if the first three seasons were dismal in the ratings, they were still fabulous. This season has a lot more unique episodes, unlike anything we've ever seen on TV. A few episodes continue in the grand tradition of 'The Chinese Restaurant,' by taking one situation and making comedic gold out of it. 'The Parking Garage' starts out simply, with the gang walking around a mall parking lot trying to find their car, but it slowly and hilariously evolves into a big batch of different stories, and with plenty of doses of social observations. Another episode uses the same method; 'The Limo.' It starts simply, with Jerry and George lying about who they are in order to get onto a limo, unaware of where the limo is taking them and what they're about to deal with. It all gets bigger and bigger as they slowly realize that they're traveling with two neo-Nazis and George (pretending to be the never before seen 'O'Brien') is expected to give a speech about how the Jews have destroyed the world. I just love this episode. Another classic is 'The Library,' with the unforgettable Mr. Bookman! His dialogue is hilarious, and in a single episode, he secures his way into 'Seinfeld' notoriety.

Of course, there are more. Every episode is filled with comedy, and the season even ends with a cliffhanger not finished until the second episode of season four. And this set follows volume one in DVD quality. The 'Notes About Nothing' are still here, to give you awesome trivia about every episode. I've become addicted to this feature, and can't watch an episod without it on. You can also meet the real Kramer in 'Kenny To Cosmo,' the story of Kramer's creation. Also, nearly every episode has 'Inside Looks.' I found the one for 'The Pen' particularly fascinating, especially Jason Alexander's talk about his feelings on being left out of the episode. These are first rate special features, and what show deserves it more than 'Seinfeld?'

Although Seinfeld found massive popularity in its later years, it always had a contingent of naysayers who derided the show as being about nothing. Let's not even mention that most TV shows are about nothing and don't have the guts to admit it, but Seinfeld inevitably caught the mood of the times, containing the requisite amounts of jaded cynicism and irony that the 1990s embodied. Seinfeld was a show that probably wouldn't be made today, with networks looking more at bottom line than inspiration, but, in a rare instance of network foresight and courage, NBC stood by the show and watched it become the biggest show ever, surpassing even its "older brother", Cheers. It's too bad NBC didn't learn from their successes, to which their current fourth place status can attest.

The third season was pivotal. Although the show's ratings weren't exactly smashing in the previous two seasons, NBC decided that the show needed more room to grow. This season produced some seminal episodes, like "The Library Cop", "The Pen" and especially "The Parking Garage", which laid down the show's look and feel. By "The Keys", the season's final episode, Seinfeld the show had evolved into what we all remember it as: clever, wacky, and oddly insightful into modern-day life.

Sony really went to town with these DVD sets. Tons of deleted scenes, documentaries, commentaries (voice and text), etc. There's enough material here for even the biggest Seinfeld devotee to learn more. It's a great value, and you know you want it anyway.

A also got this for Christmas,I saw The Alternate Side,I watched it with the notes on the screen. It is fun to see the notes on the screen.

This is another great set of DVDs from the groundbreaking TV series. All the episodes are wonderful, but I am especially fond of "The Pez Dispenser," "The Parking Space," "The Nose Job," and "The Tape." Along with the episodes are a bevy of extras including cast commentaries, bloopers, deleted scenes, notes about nothing, NBC promos ("Sponsored by Vandelay Industries"), and other treats.

Season three marks the beginning of the solidification of the characters into the eccentrics we now know and love. The show really hit its stride after two seasons of prelude, and it is hard to imagine a funnier DVD set than this one. The mark of really good comedy for me is the ability to watch it repeatedly and still find it as funny as the first time I saw it: this set passes that test, and I highly recommend it.

As a Seinfeld fan from way back when it aired as a summer substitute, I watch it every night, regardless of whether I have seen it before. Season 3 was a great season because they were by then a cohesive team and they never disappoint you. I am now awaiting Season 4's delivery, and I've signed up for Season 5. I guess that gives it 5 stars! RCinNYC

The preeminent show of the 1990's decade, Seinfeld grew from an idea of "a show about nothing" into a sacred pop culture icon - not that there's anything wrong with that.

The show follows the life of comedian Jerry Seinfeld and the exploits of his "short, quirky, bald guy" best friend, George Costanza (Jason Alexander), Jerry's neurotic neighbor Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards), and Jerry's ex-girlfriend Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). Through the years, they're joined by loveable cast of characters that includes Newman, Uncle Leo, the Soup Nazi, Frank and Estelle Costanza, the Bubble Boy, and countless others.

The third season DVD offers some of the best episodes yet, with classic lines such as "I think it moved" (episode 18) and "These pretzels are making me thirsty" (episode 28). The third season also includes the famous two part episode guest starring Keith Hernandez (episodes 34 & 35), the episode where George has sex with the cleaning woman (episode 29), and the famous pez dispenser show (episode 31).

Below is a list of episodes from the Seinfeld (Season 3) DVD:

Episode 18 (The Note)
Episode 19 (The Truth)
Episode 20 (The Pen)
Episode 21 (The Dog)
Episode 22 (The Library)
Episode 23 (The Parking Garage)
Episode 24 (The Cafe)
Episode 25 (The Tape)
Episode 26 (The Nose Job)
Episode 27 (The Stranded)
Episode 28 (The Alternate Side)
Episode 29 (The Red Dot)
Episode 30 (The Subway)
Episode 31 (The Pez Dispenser)
Episode 32 (The Suicide)
Episode 33 (The Fix-Up)
Episode 34 (The Boyfriend 1)
Episode 35 (The Boyfriend 2)
Episode 36 (The Limo)
Episode 37 (The Good Samaritan)
Episode 38 (The Letter)
Episode 39 (The Parking Space)
Episode 40 (The Keys)

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I was quite impressed with all the extra bonus material included in the DVD. I like how you can watch a favorite episode just to see it again and then go into the bonus behind-the-episode stuff and really get to see everything about that episode and what it was like to film it. The behind the scenes stuff was almost as hilarious as the show. I really think this DVD was worth every penny and its a great one to have on the DVD shelf.

My Gosh!! The extras here are so extense, well crafted, sincere... and there are LOTS of them. The extras here put the "lack of extras" on the FRIENDS DVD sets to shame!

The episodes need no mention. After all, this is one of the greatest sitcoms ever. We have THE PARKING GARAGE and THE PEN, to mention a few outstanding shows.